Just for the hell of it

An Australian boy was denied admission to a Catholic school because his last name is "Hell" and school officials want to be as far away from that as possible.

The youngster’s dad, 45-year-old Alex Hell, has expressed outrage after the primary school in the southern city of Melbourne allegedly refused to admit his son, Max."We are victims of our name," said Hell, whose name is of Austrian origin."We’re quite devastated by the whole thing," the Catholic father of three told the Australian Associated Press. "It’s 2007, not 1407 — it’s not the Dark Ages." [Link]

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It was the spring of 1407 and Principal Michael was enrolling children at St. Paul’s Holy School for Little Angels.

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